Hic nihil invenies dignum; surrepta priorumIn English:
Ossa libellorum semisepulta iacent.
Here you will find nothing worthwhile; pilfered remains of previous pamphlets lie half-buried.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Wednesday, December 30, 2015
On an Inferior Doctoral Thesis
Herbert H. Huxley (1916-2010), "On an Inferior Doctoral Thesis," Greece & Rome 20.1 (April, 1973) 78: